Fish live in water.
One day, a spring dried up, leaving a group of fish stranded.
To survive, they disgorged moisture for each other to breathe and spat foam to moisten one another. In this desperate state, they were nothing like their former selves in the rivers and springs. None could recall the freedom they once knew.
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